UPDATE (Sept. 14): The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack finally jumps to No. 1 on this week’s Billboard 200, after spending seven nonconsecutive weeks at No. 2. It ranked second behind Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem for five weeks, behind Stray Kids‘ debuting Karma for one and behind Sabrina Carpenter‘s debuting Man’s Best Friend for one.

By hitting No. 1, we can remove KPop Demon Hunters from our list of albums that spent seven or more weeks in the runner-up spot without going all the way. We did include a parenthetical disclaimer that this could happen: “(Of course, it’s possible that KPop will make it to No. 1 eventually. No one would bet against the pop-culture juggernaut at this point.)”

The list, which covers the entire history of the Billboard 200, from March 1956 to the present, is

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